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Don Mammoser and I have come up with what we
think is great workshop opportunity. We call it The
Complete Outdoor & Nature Photography
Workshop.
During this workshop we'll photograph wildlife
models, outdoor lifestyle in the form of a working
ranch, grand landscapes, intimate close ups and
more. The first part of the workshop is a Triple "D"
shoot based out of Mariposa, CA. Here we'll spend a
Day at the Ranch, photographing horses,
cowboys,
and more while they're doing horse things and
cowboy things. This has been one of the most popular
Triple "D" shoots in the history of the company.
We'll also spend three days photographing wildlife models, including a few spring babies.
After Triple "D" we'll head to Yosemite National
Park
for the rest of the workshop where we'll find waterfalls,
amazing landscapes, and spring flowers.
And you don't have to take the entire 10-day workshop.
We've
designed so that you have a choice of taking either
Triple D or Yosemite or
both (though there is a slight price break if you attend
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I'm also scheduled to lead two Triple "D" workshops
next year. The first one is Jan. 12-15 for animals in the
winter and June 13-16 for Babies in the Spring. Both
of these are already half full.
The June shoot should have plenty of cute and cuddly babies.
If you'd like to get some baby animal pictures, this is
usually the best time of year. The current spring and
summer sessions at Triple "D" are all nearly full and
they're already taking reservations for next year. So if
this is something you'd like to do, whether you'd like to
come with me in a workshop situation or if you want to
shoot on your own or in smaller groups, I highly
recommend that you send in a deposit soon. |
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I understand that there are still a few openings for the
workshop to Patagonia where I'll be assisting
landscape legends David Muench and Jack Dykinga.
I'm really excited to be going on this trip to one of the
world's most dramatic landscapes. And to be going
with two of the best landscape photographers in the
world is an added bonus.
I've co-led several workshops with David Muench and
I can tell you that he's just great in the field. He'll look
through your camera and offer suggestions or lines of
thought that are incredibly helpful.
I've not worked with Jack before, but I understand that
he's a wonderful teacher and quite the comedian. I've
long admired his photography (if you get Arizona
Highways, you've seen many of his pictures on the
covers) and am really looking forward to getting to
know him. |
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Well, I've been playing around with Photoshop CS3
the last few weeks. I really like the new features but
there are still a few bugs to be worked out. For
instance, when printing, it seems that sometimes the
print gets offset on the paper, and much of it is not
even printed. This clears up when immediately re-
printing the same image but you've still just wasted
some paper. For now, I'm leaving CS2 installed and
will be printing from that version of Photoshop instead
of the latest version.
I really like Camera Raw 4. The new control sliders work great and there's a new retouch tool that you can use to patch dust spots. You can even adjust non-RAW files like jpg and tiff files. This is really cool. I was looking through the pictures of our Mediterranean cruise we took in 2004; I'd shot everything in JPG to save space on my flash cards. Well, sometimes the auto white balance didn't work too well (either that or I had it set wrong) and the pictures I took of the inside of our stateroom had a very heavy orange cast to them due to the tungsten lighting. I'd not bothered to correct it before because of the time involved, but with the new Camera Raw 4, I could make one quick color temperature adjustment without even needing to open the image in Photoshop and they were all fixed in a matter of a couple of minutes.
And I really like the new Bridge. In theory. What I mean
by that is that some of it isn't implemented very well
and it sure seems to use an inordinate amount of
memory. Take for example, the new magnifier, or
Loupe, feature. It's about time we had a way to quickly
zoom in on parts of an image, but this thing takes
several seconds to render the magnified view. Same
thing happens in slide show mode, where I like to do
my initial culling. If you click on the image it will zoom
to 100%. But again, this takes several seconds. At
least it does on my dual-core Athlon processor
system (with 2
Gbytes of RAM). Could be a processor specific
problem, but it's rather disheartening. I'm hoping for
Bridge updates soon. |
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Well, I have a copy of my book in my hands. The
publisher sent me an advance copy a couple of weeks
ago. All in all, I'd have to say I'm pleased with how it
came out.
I should be getting copies to sell by early June and for those who have pre-ordered, I'll get those autographed copies out to you just as soon as they arrive. If you haven't ordered yours yet, there's still time. Actually, there's all the time in the world, or at least until the book goes out of print, but you get the idea. If you'd like to get your order in, just follow this link. |
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That's all for now. I hope spring is treating you well
and that you have some fun planned for summer. I'll
be heading back to Arizona soon and then it's off to the
Palouse and Triple "D" for June.
Until next month, take care. |
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